A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynars...
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.nnWINNERnnBest Animation Film at Off-Courts Trouville - France 2015nBest Animation Film at Curtas Vila do Conde - Portugal, 2015nOff-Limits" Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2015nBest short film - 33rd Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois, 2015nCreativity Award - 19th Regard sur le Court, Saguenay, Canada, 2015nnFESTIVALSnnBusan Short Film Festival - South Korea, 2016nErata Motion Pictures short Film Festival - St-Peterburgh, Russia, 2016nInternationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg - Germany, 2016nGlas animation fetsival - Berkeley, USA, 2016nMinimalen Short Film Festival - Norway, 2016nAnimatika International Animated Film Fetsival - Slovenia, 2015nTenerife Short Film Festival - Spain, 2015nAguilar de Campo - Spain, 2015nLeuven International Short Film Festival - Belgium, 2015nBratislava International Film Festival - Slovakia, 2015nInterfilm Berlin - Germany, 2015nInternationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur – Switzerland, 2015nFestival du Cinéma International en Abitibi Temiscamingue – Canada 2015nAFI Film Festival – L/A., USA 2015nSt-Louis International Film Festival, USA 2015nAnimatic Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain, 2015n8th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival - New York, USA, 2015n30th FIFF Namur - Namur, Belgium, 2015n5th Festival du cinéma de la Ville de Québec - Québec, Canada, 2015n6th Ottawa International Film Fetsival - Ottawa, Canada, 2015n13th Pacific Meridian International Film Festival - Vladivostock, Russia, 2015nAtlantic Film Fetsival - Halifax, Canada, 2015n16th OFF-Courts Trouville - Trouville, France, 2015n38th Cambridge Film Festival - Cambridge, UK, 2015n7th Les Percéides, Festival International de Cinéma et d'Art - Percé, Canada, 2015nLong Week of Short Films - Hong Kong, China, 2015n23rd Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival - Portugal, 2015nAnnecy International Animation Film Festival - Annecy, France 2015n31st Hamburg International Short Film Fetsival - Hamburg, Germany, 2015n25th filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Schwerin, Germany 2015n2nd Montreal International Animation Film Festival - Montreal, Canada 2015n19e Regard sur le court - Saguenay, Canada, 2105n33e Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois - Montréal, Canada, 2015nSundance Film Festival - Utah, U.S., 2015 (International Premiere)n28e Festival International du cinéma francophone en Acadie - Moncton, N-B, Canada, 2014n43e Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal, Canada, 2014n32nd Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada, 2014n38th Toronto International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada, 2014nnDirected by : Matthew RankinnScript and animation : Matthew RankinnCast : Alek Rzeszowski, Robert Vilar, Annie St-Pierre, Eve Majzels, Louis NeginnDirector of Photography : Julien FontainenArt Direction : Louisa SchabasnEditing : Matthew Rankin, Elisabeth Olga TremblaynSound : Patrice LeBlancnOriginal score : Patrick KeenannProducers : Matthew Rankin, Gabrielle Tougas-FréchettennDistribution: La Distributrice de FilmsnContact: serge@ladistributrice.ca Less